Re: Financial topics
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 8:27 am
** 26-Nov-2020 World View: Half-dose story
announced at the same time as the initial announcement, and the news
channels spent the whole day discussing why an initial half-dose
seemed more effective than an initial full dose.
That's not true. The half-dose issue was not a secret, and wasaeden wrote: Thu Nov 26, 2020 6:59 am > AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford on Wednesday acknowledged
> a manufacturing error that is raising questions about preliminary
> results of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
> A statement describing the error came days after the company and
> the university described the shots as “highly effective” and
> made no mention of why some study participants didn’t receive
> as much vaccine in the first of two shots as expected. In a
> surprise, the group of volunteers that got a lower dose seemed to
> be much better protected than the volunteers who got two full
> doses.
announced at the same time as the initial announcement, and the news
channels spent the whole day discussing why an initial half-dose
seemed more effective than an initial full dose.